Zerelda Cole and Robert James were married in this house on December 28, 1841. The house belonged to Zerelda's uncle and guardian, James Lindsay. Zerelda abnd Robert met while Robert was a Baptist ministry student at Georgetown College. Zerelda and Robert James in 1842 moved to Kearney, Missouri, where they had 4 children. Two of their sons became well known as notorious oulaws Frank and Jesse James, who visited Scott Co. relatives suring the outlaw years. Franklin (Frank) James was born January 10, 1843, and Jesse Woodson James was born September 5, 1847.
This bowl-shaped basin is one of the state's three major "stamping grounds". Formed when bison herds trampled the soil by the spring, the area was at the junction of several trails used by migrating herds. After the bison left, the spring served the area's human inhabitants who settled the town of Herndonsville (later Stamping Ground) in the early 1800's. (The city of Stamping Ground recently purchased the section of land that contains the spring, have built a picnic shelter, and named it Buffalo Springs Park.) -- This area first explored in April 1775 by WM. McConnell, Charles Lecompete and party from Penn. Buffalo herds had stamped down undergrowth and ground around the spring - origin if town's name.--
